You don't always have to dive into the depths to see a wealth of underwater life. Here's where our readers go for baby barracuda, baitballs, tarpon, massive coral heads and turtles galore—all while ...

Want an all-in-one primer as you get ready to hit the water for mini-season on July 30 and 31? The Keys Weekly staff have you ...

That makes coral reef food webs more structured and more fragile than we thought, offering new insight into how these ecosystems work, and how vulnerable they may be to rapid environmental change.

Today, unprecedented coral bleaching, a relatively new illness called stony coral tissue loss disease and other threats to corals are negatively impacting reef health across Belize, according to ...

The underwater world relies on sound signals—so what happens when a noisy reef falls silent?

The coral was bred with Honduran and Florida Elkhorn in an effort to make a more heat-resistant coral.

Almost all of the surveyed coral at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef died after last year’s bleaching event, a new study found, revealing one of the highest coral mortality rates ever ...

Underwater monitoring of high-frequency sounds produced by snapping shrimp can be an effective and inexpensive way to monitor coral reef health.

Marine biologists have deployed drones to document the world’s highest death rates of corals in the tropical waters off Lizard Island, on the Great Barrier Reef.